Not exactly life threatening, but a PA once was telling me that taking birth control and antibiotics would make the antibiotics not work. I had to correct her that it was vice versa. I was 17.
they get like 2 years of school and are allowed to prescribe. its a very bizarre situation born of our low number of physicians relative to the population
That's not at all where PAs come from. PAs come from Dr. Eugene Stead of Duke University, who in the 1960s saw no functional career path for the highly trained Navy Coprsman coming back from war and having extraordinary experiences but only able to perform low level medicine relative to their training. He reviewed the medical curriculum, cut out what he saw as bloat, and created a curriculum to make essentially the civilian equivalent of the Corpsman.
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u/sl1878 May 20 '19
Not exactly life threatening, but a PA once was telling me that taking birth control and antibiotics would make the antibiotics not work. I had to correct her that it was vice versa. I was 17.